Video: DC Delegate Takes To Floor To Criticize Harris

Earlier this month, leaders in Washington DC urged their residents to boycott Ocean City and the Eastern Shore, which are represented by Maryland 1st District Republican Congressman Andy Harris.

Earlier this month, Harris attached an amendment to the District of Columbia appropriations bill that would bar the city from using any city funds from enforcing its marijuana decriminalization law

All city laws are subject ot the approval of Congress.

On Friday, the District of Columbia's non-voting member of Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, took to the floor of the House to call Harris and another lawmaker, for exerting "congressional bullying."

"Yes, you can vote when I can't, but you cannot keep the resident s of the District of Columbia from doing what they can, to show you, and to show America that we will not be treated as second class citizens in our own country,"Norton said on the House floor.

"Not by Thomas Massey, not by Andy Harris, not by any member of the House of Senate."

Massey is a Kentucky Republican who attached a similar amendment regarding the city's gun control bill.

Harris, in a statement through his office, dismissed Norton's criticism, as he dismissed the calls for a boycott of his district.

"I only wish DC Vote and Delegate Norton cared as much about keeping marijuana out of the hands of teenagers as they care about the right of D.C. residents to do drugs with no consequence," Harris said.

Norton's speech was posted on You Tube, and her office notified WBAL News of the link.

Ocean City officials have told WBAL News the boycott has had no noticeable impact in summer tourism.

The Washington Post reported that this week, about two dozen DC residents went to Harris' office, as a protest, to complain about various services in the District, after Harris told a public radio interview that Congress is the "local legislature" for the District of Columbia.

The paper reports that a Harris aide met with a number of Republican activists in DC.

One of them criticized the other protesters who showed up unannounced in Harris' office.